Benjamín Labatut Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life
Benjamín Labatut quotes that inspire a great attitude towards life That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life
1. Bohr was a colossus in the world of physics. The only scientist to achieve a similar degree of influence during the first half of the twentieth century was Albert Einstein, who was as much his rival as his friend. In 1922, Bohr had already received the Nobel Prize, and he had a gift for discovering young talents and bringing them under his wing. Such was the case with Heisenberg: during their strolls in the mountains, he convinced the young physicist that, when discussing atoms, language could serve as nothing more than a kind of poetry. Walking with Bohr, Heisenberg had his first intuition of the radical otherness of the subatomic world. If a mere particle of dust contains billions of atoms, Bohr said to him as they were scaling the massifs of the Harz range, what possible way is there to talk meaningfully of something so small? The physicist—like the poet—should not describe the facts of the world, but rather generate metaphors and mental connections. From that summer onwards, Heisenberg understood that to apply concepts of classical physics such as position, velocity and momentum to a subatomic particle was sheer madness. That aspect of nature required a completely new language.Excerpt From: Benjamín Labatut. When We Cease to Understand the World.
When We Cease to Understand the World
Author:- Benjamín Labatut
Category:- science
2. So che molti dubiteranno dei miei ragionamenti. Confesso di averli intessuti in solitudine. Ammetto che hanno un carattere bizzarro, e accetto il castigo che cadrebbe su di me nel caso si rivelassero falsi. Ma oggi vi dico, con assoluta certezza, che tutte le cose possono esistere in due modi, e che niente è così solido come appare
When We Cease to Understand the World
Author:- Benjamín Labatut
Category:- science
3. Solo una visione di insieme, come quella di un santo, di un pazzo o di un mistico, ci permetterà di decifrare la forma in cui è organizzato l’universo.
When We Cease to Understand the World
Author:- Benjamín Labatut
Category:- science
4. Uno dei componenti dell’elisir di Dippel avrebbe poi prodotto il blu che compare nella Notte stellata di van Gogh e nelle acque della Grande onda di Kanagawa di Hokusai, ma anche nell’uniforme della fanteria dell’esercito prussiano, come se la struttura chimica del colore portasse in eredità la violenza, l’ombra, la macchia originaria degli esperimenti dell’alchimista che faceva a pezzi animali vivi, assemblava i loro resti in orribili chimere e tentava di rianimarli con scariche elettriche. Mostri che ispirarono a Mary Shelley il suo capolavoro, Frankenstein, o il moderno Prometeo, in cui mise in guardia contro il progresso cieco della scienza, la più pericolosa di tutte le arti umane.
When We Cease to Understand the World
Author:- Benjamín Labatut
Category:- science
